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Reign of the stupid

from Film your own atrocities by The Eisenhowers

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It was once said that if you put a million monkeys on a million typewriters, they would eventually come up with a Shakespearian play. Someone very smart has pointed out that the internet has rendered this remark demonstrably untrue. I hold to the theory that the person who came up with the monkey /typewriter /Shakespeare / theory was probably a monkey.
When I wrote this song, I was influenced by watching a TV programme on the ‘National Television Awards’. There were some very well-dressed people being rewarded, celebrated, congratulated and fawned over for their various televisual efforts. As this song says, they were giving themselves prizes and everything. As a consequence, they probably felt even better about themselves than they did before. Isn’t showbiz just great?

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Let’s make a film we can show our friends; we don’t need a meaning, we’ll just pretend. We can mix up the middle, the intro and the end.
And once we’ve agreed it’s the greatest thing, we’ll give ourselves prizes and everything. Then when the show is over, we’ll start again.
I guess you’ve become somewhat blissfully dumb,
a position to which you are suited.
You can give it your best, but you’ll fail like the rest …
Learn to live through the reign of the stupid.

We’ve got a theory for everything,
just click and go play in the trafficking …
then open your mouth little one and keep swallowing.
Ten million monkeys with fingers poised
couldn’t give Humpty a better voice,
because it’s much ado about background noise.
I guess you’ve become somewhat blissfully dumb,
a position to which you are suited.
You can give it your best, but you’ll fail like the rest …
Learn to live through the reign of the stupid.

We have attractions to make you stay
Just let your brain take a holiday
We wouldn’t have it any other way
I guess you’ve become somewhat blissfully dumb,
a position to which you are suited.
You can give it your best, but you’ll fail like the rest …
Learn to live through the reign of the stupid.

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from Film your own atrocities, released October 1, 2008

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The Eisenhowers Glasgow, UK

The music of The Eisenhowers presents an eclectic mix, inspired by the likes of Elvis Costello, David Bowie, The Kinks and Steely Dan. Following 2021's critically-acclaimed 'Judge a man by the company he keeps', the new album. 'Nudge Unit Blues', represents something of a departure, featuring, as it does, a somewhat dystopian take on recent events. It's still about the tunes, though! ... more

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